It offers expanded flash storage, more GPIO, and ditches SPI programming in favor of UPDI — a protocol that can be done using nothing more than an USB-UART converter and a resistor.

SEGGER programming support is now being made available for selected SPI flash-memory devices from Winbond Electronics.

Dublin, March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "SPI Flash Market by Technologies (3D NAND, EEPROM, NAND), Interface (Concurrent, Parallel, Serial (SPI)), Programming Methods, End-User Industries ...

The USB-1149.1/4E, a USB 2.0 JTAG controller from Corelis, provides four individual test ports and four independent I2C and SPI interfaces to enable both JTAG testing and direct in-system programming.

Especially now, as Pano Logic fanatic [Skip Hansen] has figured out how to flash a new firmware on them without having to crack open the case and break out the JTAG or SPI programmer.

The SPI programmer device rewrites the Thunderbolt controller's firmware, turning off its security settings. "I analyzed the firmware and found that it contains the security state of the ...

The attack involves using a SPI programmer, a small device for configuring chips such as flash drives, to manipulate a Thunderbolt connector’s controller chip and disable its security features.

RICHARDSON, TX. Newly released support for Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs on ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks can decrease programming times for SPI flash memory devices to the point where ...